Without convening the Politburo I cannot give any answer. I advise you either to submit a concrete proposal immediately and at once place it before the Politburo, or to act yourself on the precise basis of the powers that Stalin possesses, or, finally, to accelerate your arrival in Moscow for resolving the entire Caucasian question as a whole. In any case it is necessary to strengthen and accelerate the arrival of reinforcements, and inform me what exactly your decision is.

Lenin

Written 19 or 20 November 1920

First published in 1945

in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the text of

the telegraph tape

* - peace or war. Ed.